Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism write by Ian Bent. This book was released on 1996-08-28. Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve brilliant historians of theory probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music.
Audacious Euphony
Audacious Euphony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Audacious Euphony write by Richard Cohn. This book was released on 2012-01-23. Audacious Euphony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reconstructing historical conceptions of harmonic distance, Audacious Euphony advances a geometric model appropriate to understanding triadic progressions characteristic of 19th-century music. Author Rick Cohn uncovers the source of the indeterminacy and uncanniness of romantic music, as he focuses on the slippage between chromatic and diatonic progressions and the systematic principles under which each operate.
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music write by Jim Samson. This book was released on 2001-12-03. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.
Music, Modernity, and God
Music, Modernity, and God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Modernity, and God write by Jeremy Begbie. This book was released on 2013-11-22. Music, Modernity, and God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective, music is routinely ignored—despite its pervasiveness in modern culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God. In conversation with musicologists and music theorists, this collection of essays shows that the practices of music and the discourses it has generated bear their own kind of witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and counter-currents shaping modernity. Music has been deeply affected by these currents and in some cases may have played a part in generating them. In addition, Jeremy Begbie argues that music is capable of yielding highly effective ways of addressing and moving beyond some of the more intractable theological problems and dilemmas which modernity has bequeathed to us. Music, Modernity, and God includes studies of Calvin, Luther, and Bach, an exposition of the intriguing tussle between Rousseau and the composer Rameau, and an account of the heady exaltation of music to be found in the early German Romantics. Particular attention is paid to the complex relations between music and language, and the ways in which theology, a discipline involving language at its heart, can come to terms with practices like music, practices which are coherent and meaningful but which in many respects do not operate in language-like ways.
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning write by Daniel Chua. This book was released on 1999-11-25. Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.
